Original title: The economic and cultural changes of 800 meters in Xidan.
Reporter Wang Libin.
Every inch of land should also be left white and green. Give space to history and time to humanity. The more than 800-meter-long Xidan Commercial Street is like a corridor, exhibiting a great economic and cultural change.
The business community believes that 800 meters is the upper limit of the ideal length of a shopping street. Experience Xidan Commercial Street, 15 minutes to see 100 years.
Galeries Lafayette Department Store in the north of Xidan, Zhongshuge, the "most beautiful bookstore" in Beijing, also carries the fragrance of books when swiping mobile phones. The arch holes are nested layer by layer, like a dream, creating a reading space with the beauty of the garden; In the bamboo forest area of the study hall, the glass ceiling bamboo forest is reflected, and you can feel "sitting alone in the secluded fence, playing the piano and roaring".
Someone will stay all day. People who come here to check in will not take the liberty of asking how much consumption can be "driven" by online celebrity bookstores. The fragrance of books drives popularity and style.
Relive the memory of Xidan "turn Xidan shopping mall into a check-in point." This is a "farewell". This year, Xidan Shopping Mall will be closed for renovation to participate in the "reduction" development of urban renewal, and after completion, the "Xidan Memory 1930" block will be set up to introduce cultural and entertainment experience formats.
* On the wall, there is a handwritten postcard from a citizen: here he used his first income to buy a woolen sweater for his mother; Get your first down jacket, your first Transformers ......
Renovation of course affects business, but it takes time ...... to update"In the noodle restaurant in Xidan Mall, the waiter with shredded meat and bean noodles knows this reason.
In recent years, some people have always said that Xidan "is difficult to restore its former glory". Why do we have to "restore the glory of the past", is it because the glory of tomorrow is somewhat unfamiliar?
The reporter has lived in Xidan for 27 years, and his memories are like old **, with mixed people and vehicles, traffic congestion, and polluted air. Vendors are in the goods room, and residents are in the storage room ......Urban renewal should cure the "big city disease".
At that time, the messy and noisy "Xidan Dynamic Batch" was transformed into the former site of the Mongolian-Tibetan School with a daily limit of 3,000 people and the experience hall of the Chinese national community. Things and hearts, past and present, noisy and quiet, like a symphony of humanities and economy.
The Capital Cinema on the top floor of Xidan Joy City will continue to be the box office champion in Beijing in 2023, and the top ten box office films are all domestic films. The reporter has watched "Oppenheimer" and "Barbie" here, but the most deeply touched is "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop!" "Fengshen Part 1: Chao Song Fengyun", that is our life, our memory.
We are finding our own way of telling our lives, expressing our tears and laughter in our own words.
At the end of 2023, Xidan Joy City will link up with the White Pagoda of Miaoying Temple and the Temple of the Emperors of the Past Dynasties, etc., to integrate fashion trends with excellent traditional culture, and the monthly passenger flow will increase by 75% year-on-year5%, sales increased by 442%。
Xidan is not no longer trendy, but wants to define the tide by itself.
The boundaries between business and culture are disappearing, and the boundaries between commerce and nature are disappearing.
The former site of the Mongolian and Tibetan School and the Chinese National Community Experience Hall, red exhibitions, intangible cultural heritage experiences, and more than 700 ** cultural relics are free to visit; Zhongshuge's 1,100 square meters of space for rest, and more than 50,000 books are free to read; The urban forest of Xidan Renewal Field is free ......* Lot, not every inch has to be "realized".
When there is none, there is use. It is often the non-economic environment that drives consumption. Such red, such green, what kind of mathematical formula should be used to include GDP?
Economic development should not only focus on economic goals, but also take non-economic goals into consideration. What we need is faith, but also patience.
Urban renewal is not only about improving physical space, but also about promoting the revival of urban life and facing the future of the city.
Shopping malls are renewing, cities are renewing, and people are renewing.
The renovation of the Mongolian and Tibetan school project took 10 years.
The renovation of Xidan renewal field lasted nearly 7 years.
For master craftsmen, time is indispensable. Isn't this true for a century, a city, and a country?
*: Economic Information Daily.